Posts Tagged "keynote"
Apple’s Avenues of Communication
Apple is notorious for being the most tight-lipped company in the tech industry, only reluctantly half-heartedly acknowledging the current trend of company blogs, ongoing open dialog with customers and other web 2.0 phenomena.
However, in recent years Apple has been more chatty than ever before: Steve Jobs has written a whopping total of 2 blog posts, and even allowed 3 entire posts about the Mobile Me launch before silencing poor David G.
Read MoreiTunes 8 – First Impressions
So the Jobsnote is over and apart from the leaked iPod nano and rumored iPod touch updates, the biggest news was iTunes 8.
The Genius feature is the only one that is really new, whilst the Grid view is mostly a new take on the old “Albums with cover thumbnail” list. To be honest, whilst it’s visually quite appealing, I don’t find it very practical for actually finding music. iTunes very rarely finds the covers for all the songs in larger libraries (CoverScout anyone?) which will leave most users with a lot of black missing covers.
The same goes for the Genres Grid-view: Whilst Apple includes attractive artwork for the most common genres, others such as Funk, Grunge and Porn Groove (don’t ask) are instead assigned the cover of one of the artists within that Genre, leaving you with an odd mix of album art and genre-designs.
